Enterprise 2.0 Roll-up: Where Has All the Innovation Gone?

It's a widely known fact that the Enterprise has been jacking popular consumer technologies for its two-dot-oh pool, but the level of successful deployment thus far has failed to impress. This week we examined the possible roadblocks.

Consumer vs. Enterprise Tech: Bridging the Innovation Gap

These days innovation is like originality: it’s hard, if not impossible. And as we saw in the great failure that was Google Wave, copying Web 2.0's notes verbatim doesn't cut it in the work place.

"This is not a measurability problem," wrote co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of MindTouch, Aaron Fulkerson. "It stems primarily from the rampant misapplication of consumer technologies in the form of point applications."

It's high time we start talking about what we can do to make Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 ready. Starting here.

Amazon to Offer One Full Year of Free Cloud Services

Get ready! Starting November 1st, new Amazon Web Services customers are being offered a free year of usage on the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

If you've been wondering what Big Blue planned on doing with all the recent acquisitions, we've got answers for you. IBM has combined the technology of Cognos, a company they acquired in 2007, with Lotus Connections for Cognos 10. The solution targets mobile users with a mixture of social networking, collaboration and analytics.

Evernote 4 for Windows is Web Clipping at its Fastest

As a total ground-up build, the new Evernote 4 for Windows is reportedly five times faster, and uses half the memory of Evernote 3.5.

Other perks include:

Improved clipping: When clipping from IE, Outlook and Firefox, users will now see a New Clip popup that allows the addition of tags and assignment of notebooks without leaving the current application.

Better editing: This includes improved support for tables and bulleted and numbered lists; Better copy and paste support from IE and Office; A nicer looking toolbar

Smarter titles: Evernote will now guess at titles based on the type of information contained within a note. Like Google Docs, it may use the first line of a note or the title of a web clip (and can also be edited, of course).

Coming Soon: A Faster and Twitter-Friendly Yahoo!

Speaking of speedy operations, the new Yahoo! Mail public beta is twice as fast as its predecessor, and includes Twitter status updates, separate tabs for instant messaging, and enhanced photo and video slideshow capabilities:

"Online communication tools are an important part of people's lives—whether they're connecting with their friends and family, sharing pictures and videos, or keeping up on news across social networks," said Blake Irving, chief product officer, Yahoo!. "For the millions of people who access email from a PC and a phone or tablet, there's no better cross-device experience."

That's right, Yahoo! is also chipping away at the mobile experience with the beta, which is said to provide a similar experience across iPad, iPhone and Android devices. Interested? We don't blame you.

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